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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Apply \Ap*ply"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Applied}; p. pr & vb n.
{Applying}.] [OF. aplier F. appliquer fr L. applicare to
join fix, or attach to ad + plicare to fold, to twist
together. See {Applicant}, {Ply}.]
1. To lay or place to put or adjust (one thing to another);
-- with to as to apply the hand to the breast; to apply
medicaments to a diseased part of the body.
He said and the sword his throat applied. --Dryden.
2. To put to use to use or employ for a particular purpose,
or in a particular case; to appropriate; to devote; as to
apply money to the payment of a debt.
3. To make use of declare, or pronounce, as suitable,
fitting, or relative; as to apply the testimony to the
case; to apply an epithet to a person.
Yet God at last To Satan, first in sin, his doom
applied. --Milton.
4. To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with
attention; to attach; to incline.
Apply thine heart unto instruction. --Prov. xxiii.
12.
5. To direct or address. [R.]
Sacred vows . . . applied to grisly Pluto. --Pope.
6. To betake; to address; to refer; -- used reflexively.
I applied myself to him for help. --Johnson.
7. To busy; to keep at work to ply. [Obs.]
She was skillful in applying his ``humors.'' --Sir
P. Sidney.
8. To visit. [Obs.]
And he applied each place so fast --Chapman.
{Applied chemistry}. See under {Chemistry}.
{Applied mathematics}. See under {Mathematics}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
applied
adj 1: that are used "an isotropic resonance shift...to lower
applied fields"
2: concerned with concrete problems or data rather than with
fundamental principles; opposed to theoretical; "applied
physics"; "applied psychology"; "technical problems in
medicine, engineering, economics and other applied
disciplines"- Sidney Hook [ant: {theoretical}]
3: put into practice or put to use "applied physics"
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